Höganäs () (old da, Højenæs) is a

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and the seat of

Höganäs Municipality Höganäs Municipality (''Höganäs kommun'') is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden, in Skåne County in the southern part of the country. Its seat is located in the city of Höganäs. The rural municipality Höganäs, in which the first ''munic ...

, Scania County,

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with 14,107 inhabitants in 2010. Höganäs is nationally known for its ceramics industry, Höganäs Keramik. Höganäs Keramik is part of Iittala Group. Höganäs has the main office of

Höganäs AB Höganäs AB is a Swedish multinational based in Höganäs. It is the world's largest producer of powdered metals. It develops and markets powders for customers in metallurgical industries. The company's portfolio of products and services inclu ...

, one of the world's biggest iron powder manufacturer with subsidiaries around the world. The Höganäs AB company was founded by Count Eric Ruuth in 1797 which makes it one of Sweden's oldest companies.

History

Höganäs began as a small fishing village in the parish of Väsby, documented in 1488 in the written form ''Høyenæss''. In the middle of the 17th century it had 17 homes.

Coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when ...

was found in the area, and

mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the econom ...

started in 1797. In 1798 a

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with wooden rails was built. It was the first of its kind in Sweden and was used to transport coal from the mine to the

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. The population started to grow and new dwellings were built for the miners. During the 19th century more industries were built using

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay pa ...

for making

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products. Höganäs is well known still today for ceramics. The coal mines, however, were closed in the 1960s. In 1936, when Höganäs got the title of a

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it had 6,915 inhabitants. Since 1971 it is the seat of

, encompassing the Kullaberg

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with totally around 24,000 inhabitants. In 2009, the city began accepting the

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in its shops, restaurants, banks, and other businesses. More than 30 shops accept euros in cash as a part of a PR attempt.Delade meningar om euro hos handlare

Gallery

File:Höganäs kyrka.jpg, Höganäs church. File:Höganäs kommunhus-1.jpg, Höganäs Town hall courtyard. File:Höganäs-kommunhus-2.jpg, Höganäs Town hall courtyard. File:Hoganas_hamn_kvickbadet.jpg, Höganäs harbor. File:Höganäs Jefast ny redigerad-1.jpg, Jefast house.

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Populated places in Höganäs Municipality Populated places in Skåne County Populated places in the Øresund Region Municipal seats of Skåne County Swedish municipal seats Coastal cities and towns in Sweden 20th-century establishments in Skåne County {{Skåne-geo-stub